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I urge the minister, in the light of all the evidence that has come out about the lack of any change in temperature over the past 15 years, to think again about the Climate Change Act and to revoke it, amend it and support home owners and British businesses.

BUT the temperature IS rising- at a lower rate. We have just gone through one of our mildest winters on record, AND Sydney is surrounded by bushfires that came earlier than previously. Also, the reason that seas didn’t rise recently is because the rain that fell in the Outback was retained in the Outback. I don’t think that will happen again.
Whilst the increase is certainly much smaller than alarmists feared, there is an increase.

Not true, Nick. It might have been a mild winter in Australia, but it’s been an extremely cold summer in the northern hemisphere. The ice field in Canada is much larger than normal. Globally, temperatures are down over the last 15 years. It’s not rising at a lower rate, it’s actually falling.

Maybe in your lucky northern hemisphere! But us Antipodeans are people, too!
If you take 15 from 2013 you will get 1998. That was a year which Edgar Cayce predicted would be the end of a cycle. I wonder if he knew of a solar cycle which we don’t? (He also made other prophecies about that year, but they were reliant on human free will making the right decisions- which doesn’t seem to have happened.)

Well, Mr. Black, you’ll need a good medium, or a good crystal ball, because Cayce died in 1945. His predictions are on record so we can check them as the dates come up. It is up to you to decide if his date of 1998 is a complete coincidence.

The point may be a good one, but it’s devalued for me by the ’15 years’ bit, just as any pro-warming argument would be devalued by talking about the last 17 or 14 years. Picking an outlier year, positive or negative, tells me you’re trying to fit the data to your conclusion.

Tim, I am only reporting what I read in the papers, though it was a NASA scientist making the claim. Apparently Australia is a very thirsty land.
And as for you, cowardly, I hope you have read that temperatures are still rising, even though it is at a lesser rate that before. I can assure you that I am the opposite of a Communist, as I hope to become a rich inventor very soon. So There!!!!

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